In this review article, Robert Field believes that the market, not state law, should determine whether companies can require customers and employees to provide proof of vaccination.

Field is also a professor of law and a professor of health management and policy at Drexel University, and is a part-time senior researcher at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. (This article was originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer.)

"No shoes, no shirts, no service." Almost certainly, you have seen these words on the sign outside the store near the beach in the summer. How about-"no inoculation, no verification, no visitation"? May we start to see such words soon?

The CDC says that if you are vaccinated, you can now go shopping without a mask. In response, several large retailers including Wal-Mart, Target and Costco have lowered their mask requirements. If you don't wear a mask, how do they know that you are vaccinated? You are in your honor.

Other companies may want to be more cautious, such as health clubs and small specialty stores where customers and employees interact closely. They may prefer something more powerful than the honor system, and many of their potential customers may feel the same way.

More and more private organizations have begun to take this path. More than 100 universities will require students to be vaccinated before returning in the fall. All cruise companies are doing the same, and some airlines are considering following suit. The risks in these environments are too great to just listen to customers.

Some countries are developing systems to verify vaccination. Participating in concerts and sporting events in Israel requires a green pass. The EU is considering establishing a verification system, and several countries including Denmark, China and Japan are also considering. New York State is developing an application called Excelsior Pass to store vaccination records. All these systems also provide documentation of recovery from Covid or recent negative test results.

In the United States, it is unlikely to establish a national system. This can be a logistical nightmare and cause major privacy issues. However, prudent shopkeepers may require customers who do not wear masks to show at least one CDC card that records their vaccinations. This is not much different from asking customers to cover their bare chests and feet while walking in a beach towel. Customers who have not been vaccinated may unknowingly breathe out the virus droplets, which are definitely more health risks than the sand and seawater that customers who are half-clothed may shed unknowingly.

Regardless of your health status, you have no right to insist on entering a private enterprise. Instead, companies have a legitimate interest to make their premises as hygienic as possible. If customers cannot bear the idea of ​​walking back to their beach towels to retrieve neglected clothing, they can try another store. Customers who will not produce vaccination certificates or masks can do the same.

Hygiene-conscious companies may find that by attracting safety awareness, they will attract more customers. On the other hand, if they find that their policies are driving away business, they can reassess them. This is where the market is at work.

"If the public does not want companies to require evidence of vaccination, the market will speak."

Many states, including Arizona, Florida, Iowa, and Texas, have or are considering enacting laws to override the market and prohibit private companies from requesting evidence of vaccination, whether they or their What the customer wants. These laws replace the freedom of private companies and individuals to decide how safe they want under the command of politicians. If the public does not want companies to require vaccination certificates, then the market will speak. There is no need for politicians to preemptively.

As the number of Covid cases further declines, the verification of vaccination is expected to become a problem. At the same time, those who want to make themselves and those around them as safe as possible should have the freedom to do so.

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Therefore, if a company needs to inject COVID-19, then all customer data is protected by HIPPA because it is a medical certificate?

I think it’s interesting how far liberal counties are willing to go for this. France is the most extreme example. It seriously makes you wonder how far we will go. It’s as scary as Ebola.

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